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@Mishtakes21 The only thing I use a stethoscope for now is to check reflexes 😂. And it is usually the nurses stethoscope.

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@Travis_M_Wilson Evaluations should be honest. Good students get a good evaluation whereas mediocre or poor students get the same. Time to bring back the meritocracy.

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@christinajoi @Dr_amoytheemd The problem is the medical field is filled with many high achieving narcissists. You absolutely do not need to pamper them.

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@GavinPrestonMD Being a doctor will afford you a nice upper middle class existence but you are unlikely to obtain true financial independence unless you are a very astute business person or get very lucky investing.

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This poster probably shouldn't be a doctor. He will harm someone or many people with his arrogance. I have been in specialty practice for about 15 years now and realize how important every single member of the medical community is. I literally cannot do my job with an anesthesiologist! I cannot do my job without a scrub tech. I cannot be the "alpha" male without these people helping me... I know very little about diabetes management and even less about GI diseases. I call my colleagues for help when I don't know the answer. This poster needs a solid dose of humble pie and quickly!

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Best advice I ever got from an attending during training was before operating always ensure you have the right patient with the right pathology and are intervening at the right time. Missing one of these components? No surgery.

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@HarryDauerman @djc795 @rcstoler @jjlop131 God bless him and his family. It is such a major loss to not only his family but to his future patients and those he could have helped.

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What is the difference between now and medicine in the 1950s or 1960s? Were doctors less burned out then? Or did it just not get any attention? I would conjecture that a great deal of burnout is related to non-doctoring things in the setting of an onerous legal landscape and the demise of paternalistic medicine (the notion that doctors know better than their patients and patients should respect them for their knowledge). Paternalistic medicine should be tempered, but not completely eliminated. Doctors have become a shell of their former worth because we are consistently being told our opinion doesn't matter and that Google has the answer. Otherwise why have physicians at all? If my opinion and expertise are not treated with respect and at least some degree of deference it makes burnout even worse because now even the patient is skeptical.

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@DOctorcayenne Oh yes I remember that... I put 5000 on a zero percent credit card and paid it off over 5 years 😂. The killer thing was the interest free period was only 6 months. I think the interest ended up costing me more than the original amount 🥴

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@seleniumdrive I would argue the jump from senior resident to attending is the hardest. You start to learn about true responsibility and also the business of medicine which will make your blood boil sometimes. Good luck!

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Mankind has been involved in this type of behavior for thousands of years. It is unlikely to change. I read an interesting article that talked about humans being a stepping stone in the evolution to AI generated robots. Imagine if the next iteration of "humans" are actually robots and AI taught itself that war and death has little intrinsic value. Imagine if the traditional biological Darwinian evolution is replaced by a technological evolution in being. Pretty far out there but not entirely unlikely.

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@Amber_LeeOMS Yeah crush it! I know you will! Be confident but compassionate... These are both traits you have been developing over the last 4 years. Good luck!

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@doclauravater A great book is Talking with Strangers by Gladwell... Similar idea that we have very little understanding of what is happening with other people.

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@doclauravater This video from Cleveland Clinic on empathy hits really hard. It speaks to exactly what you are talking about...

https://t.co/DHI9ctekqg

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@doclauravater The first time I told a buddy I had a golden weekend he looked at me like I had 2 heads 😂.

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Major problem... Not as bad in the US but it is getting there. I would prioritize time with your family especially if the pay is poor. In the US we have an RVU system which incentivizes amount of care over quality of care. Do your best to maintain your morality. It is hard but can be done. Attached is an article we wrote about this type of care...

https://t.co/1ThufXEmQ5

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@RJ_Med_ Congrats on first interview! This is always an exciting time in the life of a young doc.

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@jaskMS3 Ha ha nice! Good luck! And 👍